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Originally Posted by imaclient
I appreciate the explanation brianf. I only need a web hosting for my personal sites so therefore I will just go for a shared hosting. But could you tell me what kind of company or websites would grid hosting do best? Or is it just the same as the other kinds of web hosting and it all depends on the resources of the company?
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A business or organization that needed real-time load balancing and
files located and backed up over several servers. So in theory if a single server goes down, their site would still be up.
This type of hosting is appealing to everyone, however, in general it would be too expensive to justify for a personal site. There are quite a few hosts that offer this at a very low price, however, like shared hosting you get what you pay for. I've done some work for a few clients that are on this type of service and while the uptime is good, service slows significantly fairly often.
Like HL-James said, do your research and speak with the support staff.
Just don't limit yourself in to a specific type of hosting, unless you have a requirement that makes it necessary to do so.